Hurley, Wisconsin, 1886 – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hurley, Wisconsin, 1886 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Hurley, Wis., Ashland County 1886
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Hurley, Wisconsin, 1886
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Hurley, Wisconsin, in 1886 was a young settlement in the far north of the state, set in the forested hills of the Penokee range near the Montreal River. Its growth followed the region's two main resources: white pine, still being cut and floated downriver to sawmills, and iron ore, which prospectors had been pulling from the Penokee hills since the late 1870s. Ore and timber moved out by rail and wagon toward Lake Superior ports such as Ashland, so the town's streets were shaped by freight yards, boarding houses, saloons, and the stores that supplied miners and loggers. Life there was rough and unsettled, with many workers arriving on seasonal contracts and leaving when the cutting or digging ran out, which is part of why a town drawn this way in 1886 captures such a crowded, changing place.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hurley, Wisconsin, drawn in 1886. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,448 × 4,000 px · prints to 21 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hurley, Wis., Ashland County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491389 |
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